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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Biden is selling fly swatters
with his campaign logo and a play on his "Truth over Lies" line, "Truth over Flies."
Biden has sold out of fly swatters.
Edited by Parable on Oct 8th 2020 at 10:25:40 AM
Apologies in advance for linking directly to a Trump tweet, but he posted another rambling video
this afternoon from what would appear to be the south lawn of the White House, but the more I look at it the more I'm convinced he's in front of a green screen.
Please someone tell me if I've gone full Tinfoil Hat on this, but honestly what the hell.
Edited by DavidMerrick on Oct 8th 2020 at 2:21:38 PM
That's just a rambling sale-pitch akin of a drugged up hooker in a street-corner, in debt, and stopping any car they can see, begging for money...
Trump is down on all fours and desperately licking the feet of his base to get votes. This much is obvious.
While being an narcissist about it and zero self-respect whatsoever. Non-stop lying.
That video was just outright disgusting, even by his standards...
(Also, I too got the feeling of green-screen going through it. What was the weather in Washington when this video was made?)
Edited by TitanJump on Oct 8th 2020 at 8:29:51 PM
SwiftOnSecurity
thinks it might be a combo of a telephoto lens and video compression rather than actual green screen, so I'm afraid I did go full corkboard Charlie for a second, but man how bad is your video production team when shooting on the White House lawn looks like chroma key.
So apparently Trump is trying to rush out $200 Medicare Prescription cards to seniors
before the election - to my knowledge, this has not gone through Congress, so I have to ask - is this even legal?
Edited by ironballs16 on Oct 8th 2020 at 4:17:54 AM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"If I lived in Michigan right now, I'd be terrified that the state for the next Couple of years is gonna be a hotbed of Right-Wing Terrorism.
This is one of those things where I suspect where I live warps my perspective.
I feel like that Krill in Orville being told that there were some krill showing a suspicious amount of interest in the holy books.
Captain: "Isn't that...good?"
Because the police going after Right Wing nationalists is so rare it makes me feel happy.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Regarding the question of how serious Trump’s condition was/is, one thing to keep in mind is so-called “VIP-syndrome”, the tendency for extremely important patients to get more aggressive treatment (often to their detriment) than an average patient, which is in part due to the VIP/their families pressuring doctors to do SOMETHING, even when there isn’t a clear reason to think it will help the patient. Trump is absolutely the kind of person who I could see falling into that.
Things are getting very real in the US.
Edited by Redmess on Oct 8th 2020 at 11:54:14 AM
Hope shines brightest in the darkest times

If it wasn't obvious that Joe Biden's lead on Trump was growing in terms of National polls, then Him being on the cusp of 10 points above trump
makes it even clearer now.
Watch Symphogear